Thirsting Souls

Have you ever wondered why it feels like God isn't listening to your prayers? Have you ever felt like God was rejecting your every word? The Bible sheds light on those feelings and reminds us that the problem is with us, not God. Listen along and discover five ways you can unknowingly be sabotaging your prayers. Love your sin. Ignore God's will. Desire admiration. Doubt God's character...

It was the tenth day of Nissan—40 years to the day since the Passover lambs had been killed in Egypt. Joshua and the leaders of Israel were calling the people to prepare to cross over the Jordan River, which was overflowing its banks. The people were to watch for the priests to carry the ark of the covenant before them, then they were to follow 1,000 yards behind—far enough back where the people a...

If we’re going to be honest with ourselves, it isn’t a necessary account. Truly, if you read Joshua 1 and then begin reading Joshua 3, the account of taking the promised land makes perfect sense. In some ways, the story actually flows better . But the author purposefully interrupts his retelling of the conquest to shoehorn this account into the book. While it’s not essential for retelling history,...

Follow along with our new study in the book of Joshua! Here's an overview of the book: Entering Canaan (1-5) Conquering Canaan (6-12) Dividing Canaan (13-22) Obedience in Canaan (23-24) Here's an overview of the chapter: The persistence of God’s promise (1-4) The closeness of God’s presence (5-6, 9, 17) The centrality of God’s word (7-8) The unity of God’s people (10-18)

God is jealous God is judge God is just

Problem: You can easily be accused of doing wrong even while doing right. Big Idea: God requires his church display blamelessness in church finances. Blamelessness involves zeal for the church (16-17). Blamelessness demands dedication to God’s glorious gospel (18-19). Blamelessness takes accountability (20-21, 23). Blamelessness calls for a track record of faithfulness (22). Blamelessness entails...

Wrapping up the book of Hebrews! How to offer God acceptable, reverent worship (1–6) How to persevere (7–17) How to pray (18–25)

Problem: You can respond to difficulty by running from the grace of God Big Idea: When there is difficulty as God trains you to live in godliness, you must live in thankful dependence on Christ’s grace.

We desire comfort in our Christianity while God desires transformation. Because internal transformation only occurs with difficult training, look to the encouragement God has given. 1. When you are discouraged by the difficulty of internal transformation, look at the forerunners of the faith (1–3). 2. When you are discouraged by the difficulty of internal transformation, consider the heart of God...

Problem: Humans prove that we are not inherently generous. Big Idea: Because God’s riches of grace have overflowed toward you, you should overflow with generosity toward his work. 1. Grace empowers generosity. 2. Christians exhibit a love for Christ through generosity. 3. God enables equity through generosity. 4. Christ embodied generosity.

In 2 Corinthians 7, Paul helps us understand God's purposes for conviction. God designed sin to bring conviction God designed conviction to lead to repentance God designed repentance to encourage the church.

Many priests have stood, but only one has sat down because of his finished work!

You can feel that you don't have the power to obey the Lord. If you were under the Old Covenant, that would be true! However, since Jesus has established the New Covenant, he has begun a divine work in you that enables you to will and to do his good pleasure!

When we have to wait for God's promises to be fulfilled, we can doubt the promises and the one who gave them. But because the unchanging God gave the promises, you can patiently wait for him to fulfill them. God’s promises require patience (13-15). God’s promises are guaranteed by his faithfulness (16-18). God’s promises have hope through Jesus (19-20).

Spiritual immaturity is unbefitting of a Christian. Because prolonged spiritual immaturity signifies unbelief, you must press on to a mature spiritual walk. Maturity is necessary because basic Christian doctrine is only a foundation (1-3). Maturity is necessary because immaturity is consistent with apostasy (4-8). Maturity is necessary because works of faith bring assurance (9-12).

You might assume that your life situation makes you useless to the cause of Christ. You might assume that because of the hand that life has dealt you, Jesus can’t use you.

How can we ever give enough thanks to the God who deserves all praise? David shows us that God strengthens our hearts to make bold prayers of thankfulness!

There are certain things that we invite into our lives that hinder our walk with God. In 2 Corinthians 6 and 7, Paul tells the Corinthians that one of those things is deep, meaningful relationships with unbelievers. He calls these believers to remove themselves from their unequal yokes and pursue total devotion to God.

You can experience God’s grace and refuse to let it affect you. That’s not what Paul wants for us, and it is definitely not what the Lord wants for us, so 2 Corinthians 6 is going to push us to respond appropriately to God’s grace. Because grace has been freely delivered through the work of Christ, you must respond to God’s call on your life. The work of Jesus Christ brought about radical, free-fl...

Proverbs 9 gives us a theoretically easy choice. We can choose wisdom or we can choose folly. Making the “right” choice is theoretically simple. We need wisdom, but we are experts at making the wrong choice. We choose folly. Proverbs 9 shows us how to choose wisdom more consistently.

In this section of Proverbs, Solomon is coaching his son on how to live life at its best. By extension, Jesus is telling us how to live our lives at their best. Throughout this section, we’ll see instructions from Solomon to his son and from Jesus to us. God wants us to do something. He gives instructions to direct us, and those instructions are quickly followed by incentives.

God desires for you to have a foolproof life—to live with perpetual wisdom that draws you closer to him. you must die to yourself. You must forget yourself and pay attention to the risen Lord, Jesus Christ. When you look at the cross, you should see the source of all wisdom dying there for fools like you simply because He loves you. Look away from yourself and look at Him. Let your pride melt away...

Hebrews 5:11-14 issues a stern rebuke to the author's readers. They have grown lazy and are avoiding the deep things of God's word. They need to mature and grow in their ability to understand, and that brings up a question. How should they grow their ability to interpret God's Word? Listen along to be equipped with the answer!